I am happier than most that the Good Friday restriction has been lifted (Easter is one of the times Ireland I come back to Ireland each year, and it’s a pain in the bum that everything is closed on one of the days), but if someone feels like closing their pub for a day, for whatever reason, that’s their prerogative.

Well perhaps, but it’s their call, isn’t it? I mean, just because opening Good Friday was legalised, doesn’t make it mandatory.

In the same way, when the anti-choicers came around last week, I told them that legalising abortion won’t make it mandatory either. Despite what they seemed to be thinking. Soros wants to kill all the babies or something. Spare me.

@GOS: I don’t know how familiar you are with pubs in Drumconrath but they’re rarely packed on any Friday afternoon, absent a big race meeting. Still, you got the mandatory dig in at those poor, superstitious rubes and that’s what’s really important on Broadsheet.

There will be a bit of messiness in city centres this year as idiots go wild on the idea of being allowed drink; but next year there’ll be quiet pubs like any other Friday of a bank holiday. And the house parties will be dead

Total alcohol consumption for the weekend nationally is going to go down, can’t see any other outcome